BURNING SUMMER
ARRIVAL IN WESTERN DESERT
ENEMY OFFENSIVE UNLIKELY,
BEFORE NEXT AUTUMN,
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. General Rommel is unlikely to launch an offensive in the Libyan De-A-sert at least before autumn, says the “Daily Mail’s” Cairo correspondent. Today officially marked the beginning of summer. Sweltering heat while a burning khamseen, driving choking, gusts of sand, is steadily mounting in strength. The weather will soon be unbearable. A summer offensive is almost impossible. Radiators are already boiling and sand is clogging carburettors and ventilators. Only twice have summer offensives been attempted—a year ago when Rommel attempted to break into Tobruk and six. weeks later when we took the offensive against the enemy in the Bardia area. Both attempts failed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1942, Page 4
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